Editor’s note: I am bumping this drop back to the top of the page because when I posted it a month ago y’all slept on the music and my Mets.
‘Acknowledge Greatness‘ reps NYC hardbody and you can’t get any more NY than the Yankees vs. Mets.
J-Love and Meyhem go back and forth on their favorite teams. The Mets are lucky to have anyone as nice as Meyhem bigging them up because they sux.
J-Love & Meyhem Lauren – ‘Subway Series’
The Association ‘chip tourney has come down to one last game and the winner takes all.
Thursday night’s tilt will mark the 17th time that the Finals have needed a seventh game to decide the champs.
In lieu of the news that Disney Corp., the parent company of ESPN would be shuttering almost all of the ESPN Zone restaurants I have decided to watch this historic game at that venue.
Not from the bar or an attended booth, but from my fave zone in the building – the deuceteria.
Sheeeit, with a screen in the latrine playing Game 7 and my own food and beverages I can tell you off top who the real winner will be on Thursday night…
Winning, winning, winning, winning. Winning…
Just prA’li not in our lifetime tho’…
While the Gulf of Mexico will be fucked the fuck up for a long ass time there is some other shit we have been fucking up since the G Dubbz administration. Namely, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan seemed like a shithole to me. Especially when you looked at all those pics from the days of their war with the Russians. I mean yeah, they have hell’a poppy fields and that helps the heroin dealers move horse like a mother, but do we need to keep losing American lives so the Amy Winehouses and Lindsay Lohans can stay lifted? My problem was that I wasn’t using the molecular microscopes that the Pentagon has in effect.
Afghanistan looks like a land filled with deserts of sheepherders when in reality they might be one of the richest nations on the planet. All that bombing we have done to the Afghan terrain in search of, er, yeah, has uncovered a vast wealth of mineral resources that were previously unaccounted for. Something to the tune of trillions of dollars in mineral wealth. Iron, copper, gold, cobalt and LITHIUM. Wait until the Energizer bunny hears about all the lithium they have in Afghanistan. And you know that dude doesn’t stop beating his war drum for nothing.
He just keeps going, and going, and going…
The Gulf of Mexico? That shit will be clean enough to drink from in a few years and life will return to that region.
Afghanistan? Not so much.
Last night Chocolate Snowflake took me to the Japan Society for an exhibition they are hosting titled ‘Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi‘.
It’s a display of these incredible painting by this master artist in a style called Ukiyo-e. These are graphic depictions of myths and ancient parables that were cut into woodblocks for mass printing. The Ukiyo-e are totally the fathers to the comic books and the graphic novels we enjoy so much today.
As I walked thru the exhibition and viewed Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s prints and especially his sketchbooks I had total recall of Frank Miller’s graphic novel Ronin from the early 1980’s. Kuniyoshi was describing epic samaurai battles with mystical apparitions and mega beasts 150 years prior to Miller but Kuniyoshi’s work looked as contemporary as the comics he inspired.
Where Frank Miller was influenced by the Ukiyo-e art wasn’t just in the concept, layouts and paneling of the stories, but most importantly in the printing of the images. A Ukiyo-e woodblock template is a precision based item hand-carved by an artist. Can you imagine the technique you must have to employ in order to print text from the woodblock? You have to carve the characters in reverse so that when the woodblock is printed it reads correctly.
Frank Miller was unhappy with the production of comicbooks. Because the process was so assembly-line oriented things like color separations and penciling details would get lost in the sauce. Peep the pages from the Wolverine mini-series that Miller did with Chris Claremont. See how the page coloring bleeds thru the paper?
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Frank Miller wanted to use a different technique for the presentation of the Ronin graphic novel. He wanted to implement the Ukiyo-e style of hand painting each individual page and then have these pages printed on a premium stock of paper. Frank Miller’s Ronin became the inspirational format for the modern graphic novel.
Go to the Japan Society and see the artist that inspired Frank Miller.
Peep this beautiful NYC shit…
I’m standing at the busstop this morning bright and early on my way to work. This dude walks up to me directly and tells me that he has 20 crates of albums for sale. I scan dude’s steez and he looks like he just came up from a basement, prA’li his moms. He’s wearing a dirty white tee, dusty ass jeans and a super scuffed pair of adidas.
My reply to holmes was, “good for you.”
He just looked at me and nodded on some bruh man from the fifth floor shit.
“I just wanted you to post that on your blog.”**
ROFL!!!! No doubt homey. See you tomorrow.
BIG RECORD SALE
Hip-Hop, Rap, Reggae, R&B, a touch of jazz, Disco, etc.
20 crates full of music
Records are in varied condition. Some have been very loved, some rarely played, lots of gems.
Saturday, June 12 10am-4pm
482 Sterling Street, BK
(btwn Washington and Classon Avs)
**Mention ‘Dallas Penn’ and get a free 45